#folklorems.intro

ABOUT ROBIN

grew up in a rich family on the north side of town but absolutely hated it. dad was a lawyer and mom was a lawyer. robin saw them as the worst of the worst.

despised seeing the excess they were living in while others were struggling to make it through the day

when they were 18, they peaced out from their family and started their own landscaping business to support themself. it wasn’t their passion, but they had a lawn mower and a solid work ethic. their first customers came from the north side, people robin grew up around. during one of their gigs, they accidentally broke a piece of pottery at someone’s house. not wanting to get into trouble, they cleaned it up and hoped the owners wouldn’t mention it - they never did. this was the incident that gave robin the idea that’d change their life. these rich folks had shit they didn’t care about that was worth a ton of money - money that robin knew could genuinely help out so many people. so, robin started stealing things from the homes they worked at. it took finesse - some households were more likely to notice than others, how to liquidate the items, etc, etc, but they’ve turned it into something successful. they even expanded the business a couple years ago to include some employees - merry men landscaping, as they call themselves.

lives in the west of woodvale. robin knows its reputation, but for them, they’ve never felt more at home

skilled with a gun - growing up, their father taught them how to shoot guns for sport and now robin always keeps one close by

robin isn’t an asshole. they can be cheeky and playful, but when it comes down to it, if they believe you’re a decent human being, they’ll have your back right down the line. once you’re a friend of robin’s, you’re a friend forever.

WANTED CONNECTIONS

merry men!!! : these are ppl who work for robin’s landscaping/theft business, but not only do they work together, they’re tight. robin is ride or die for their ppl and they only work with those who are the same

helpers : these are ppl who help with the business but aren’t necessarily in it. i’m thinking pawn shop owner/worker, maids/butlers, etc, etc

childhood buds: people robin grew up with in the north (possibly still good friends or have grown apart since robin moved)

targets: people robin “works for” but actually steals from

beneficiaries: people robin gives the money to - these are people who just need a lil help and robin helps them (not always monetarily like yes, that’s the core of the business, but they’re always willing to lend a hand in other ways as well. they love a challenge)

ABOUT

tw: fire, death

rather expectantly, her parents were never quite the stable, healthy folks you’d see in a well-to-do household, their many travels leading to vegas when vidia was around seven years. it would be the last place they settled as a family, their lives already on the fringes by then. Her mother was a housewife, dedicating her life to her husband and daughter’s happiness and never her own. It always struck vidia as a terrible way to exist, a form of entrapment she never cared for. her father, a militant pilot who praised diligence and traditionalism over all else, as his father before him, would see his ideals crumble after years abroad. somehow, he’d become a lesser man, a lesser person than he once was and he’d grown angry, in time. at himself for his weakness, at others for not seeing his fading greatness — at his inability to just be as he once was, with his mind unraveling, decaying at the seams. a pathetic drunk, an abusive husband to a wife that’d given up everything. barely much of a father. that was his legacy. he would die in a fire of his own design, a bittersweet image that still haunts vidia to this day.

following this, vidia and her mother fell into something of a spiral, with her mother seeking comfort in equally terrible men and vidia herself seeking acceptance and a home in other forms — be it in friends up to no good, the streets, or eventually some semblance of a music career. it was racing, specifically, that would result in her string of lockups on account of the associated crime that came along with her newer passion. and it was her status as a fugitive of the law after taking the fall for someone else, an ex in fact, that eventually led vidia to slip into the scenic town of woodvale, having mistakenly believed it was her ticket to temporary salvation while evading the worst of the punishment. her being stuck now seems like far worse a sentence than anything she could rightly conceive.

ABILITY

aerokinesis — she can shape and manipulate air, however, the stronger the current, the more energy and stamina it requires. the speed and pressure of this air is also affected by her physical state and she cannot create air from nothing, only manipulate what surrounds her. fire and electricity may hinder this skill further, and as her hands are the driving force behind this talent, she is useless when they are bound.

HEADCANONS

before realizing there was no way out, vidia invited her mother to join her in woodvale in an effort to ensure the woman’s safety and keep an eye on her. as before, vidia serves as her ungrateful mother’s meal ticket these days, securing funds for her whenever possible and still caring for her to some extent despite the woman being holed up with some filth of a man near the west side of town. vidia also visits when she can, though her mother doesn’t appear to mind one way or the other lately, blaming the girl for her predicament

on the chance she doesn’t have a race or performance for the evening, she'll typically make use of her time nursing a drink at the bar unless she happens upon some quick scheme or side job for cash, which her natural greed would prevent her from refusing most often. she is also ridiculously poor most of the time, on account of her pouring her funds into her vehicles or her mother rather than the usual living expenses, so refusing is typically a one-way ticket to starvation

gambling, while her usual choice in crime, is one she’s actually fairly terrible at if it doesn’t involve a vehicle of some sort. a lot of her connections in general are related to criminals and various criminal actions committed

vidia holds something of a biker grunge sense of style — ripped skinny jeans and plenty of fishnet, barely-there dresses, exposing vintage tanks and tees. she owns far too much leather and lace and enough plaid to make a statement, often accompanied by vintage ring sets and dangling necklaces. she believes in immodesty and surely it’s apparent

vidia is something of an insomniac. and given her tendencies to wander about at night rather than sleep, keeping to goodness knows what, her internal clock is terribly off balance. a good portion of the time, she’s late to most things during the day due to her eternal struggle to actually get out of bed when necessary

plums are her absolute favorite food and they might be the only edible thing she keeps in her kitchen regularly enough, when she can afford it

she has an arrow tattoo positioned near her right wrist, extending a partial length of her forearm. a set of angel wings in 'tramp stamp' form also decorate her skin. she also has far too many piercings. ears, naval, tongue — you name it, she's likely spiked a hole through it at some point

her usual vehicle is a hennessey venom gt, rated one of the fastest cars in the world. sporting a brilliant shade of imperial purple, it’s an easy mark to make in the streets. as an alternative, as it’s a little less conspicuous, she’ll ride through town on a kawasaki ninja zx-14r. also in a custom, darker byzantium hue, its right side is decked out in stardust

WANTED

bring me your criminals, your petty thieves, your outcasts

other disney fae naturally, maybe even the dragon from her stories

those who would use her mother against her or just use her past against her in general

fellow musicians or the band she might regularly perform with

bar buddies, party friends, drug dealers, fellow terrible influences

former flings, exes, even weirdly undefined romances still in play if you will

STATS  : 

full  name  :  isabelle  french  .

nickname  :  belle  .

fable  :  beauty  and  the  beast  .

gender  &  pronouns   :  ciswoman  .  she  /  her  .

age  &  birthday  :  twenty  six  .  may  15th .  

sexuality  :  pansexual  .

zodiac  :  taurus .

labels  :  the  bibliophile  ,  the  catalyst  ,  the  halcyon  .

neighborhood  :  the  west  .

occupation  :  manager  at  willows  book  store  &  waitress  at  berries  and  burgers  .

family  :  lynette  french   (  mother  ,  deceased  .  )  maurice  french   (  father  .  )

aesthetics  :  slender  fingers  brushing  against  bookcases  ,  a  honey  toned  voice  matched  with  a  sweet  smile  ,  the  lingering  smell  of  baked  bread  in  the  early  hours  of  the  morning  ,  

power  :  hallucikinesis  .  -  her  power  is  to  make  people  see  things  that  aren’t  really  there  .   since  she  is  currently  unaware  of  this  ability  ,  i  don’t  imagine  she  can  make  people  see  anything  too  out  of  the  ordinary  yet  .  it’s  mainly  small  things  ,  like  little  flashes  of  things  ,  like  animals  or  people  .  though  as  she  learns  about  it  ,  it  would  move  to  things  that  can  resemble  one’s  desires  ,  fears  ,  e.c.t.  

faceclaim  :  hande  ercel  .

BIO  :   —  TW  :  mentions  of  death  ,  cancer  .

belle  was  raised  by  her  single  father  ,  maurice  .  her  mother  died  during  childbirth  ,  and  her  father  being  deeply  in  love  with  her  mother  and  unable  to  see  his  life  with  anyone  else  ,  decided  to  never  remarry  .  he  instead  raised  belle  alone  the  two  of  them  living  in  a  run  down  trailer  in  the  trailer  park  .   she  helped  out  around  the  house  to  make  things  easier  ,  and  as  soon  as  she  was  old  enough  ,  she  got  her  first  job  at  the  bookstore  .  the  same  bookstore  she  eventually  worked  up  to   being  a  manager  in  .

growing  up  without  a  mother  was  hard  ,  but  her  father  did  good  at  playing  both  parts  .  he  went  around  to  other  mothers  in  the  neighborhoods  ,  asking  them  to  give  him  lessons  on  hairstyling  and  picking  out  clothes  .  he  was  so  happy  the  first  time  he  braided  her  hair  successfully  .  the  two  of  them  are  truly  best  friends  ,  and   did  everything  together  .  morning  bike  rides  ,  shopping  ,  sunday  feasts  ,  played  sports  .  even  doing  the  small  things  like  running  errands  with  her  father  made  her  happy  .

 she  never  had  that  many  friends  .  a  lot  of  people  viewed  belle  as  weird  ,  or  a  loner  .  she  was  the  girl  who  sat  in  the  corner   lost  in  the  pages  of  the  books  in  her  hand  .  she  did  try  to  make  some  friends  ,  but  she  really  didn’t   need  them  .  she  was  always  very  independent  ,  and  her  imagination  ran  wild  enough  to  keep  herself  entertained  .  she  spent  a  great  deal  of  time  in  the  library  .  she  swears  she’s  read  every  book  in  there  ,  even  the  ones  that  didn’t  seem  too  interesting  .  

 school  was  something  she  was  very  passionate  about  .  she  loves  to  learn  ,  and  excelled  in  all  of  her  classes   .   she  knew  she  had  to  do  well  in  school  to  achieve  her  dream  of  getting  her  and  her  father  into  a  cute  little  house  in  the  south  side   ,  and  land  a  job  as  a  teacher  .  everything  was  planned  out  in  her  head  ,  until  she  hit  a  bump  in  her  plan  .  her  father  was  diagnosed  with  cancer.  only  in  her  first  year  of  college  ,  belle  made  the  decision  to  put  her  schooling  on  hold  .  forcing  her  father  to  quit  his   job  ,  she  took  up  a  second  one  and  took  on  the  task  of  taking  care  of  him  .   money  is  still  currently  tight  with  her  father’s  medical  bills  ,  and  she  is  getting  desperate  for  money  .  that  doesn’t  stop  her  from  putting  on  a  fake  smile  however  ,  and  going  about  as  if  everything  is  just  fine  .

she  has  a  golden  lab  named  ollie  ,  who  is  only  a  few  years  old  .  he  is  a  pain  in  the  ass  ,  and  a  master  escape  artist  .  belle  is  always  chasing  him  around  the  town  ,  trying  to  get  him  back  home  or  at  the  very  least  out  of  everyone’s  yards  .

PERSONALITY  :

she  is  a  pretty  confident  and  outspoken  person  .  not  in  a  way  that  she’s  rude  about  it  ,   but  belle  is  not  afraid  to  speak  her  mind  and  stand  up  for  her  beliefs  ,  herself  ,  or  other  people .  she  doesn’t  really  concern  herself  with  the  opinions  of  others   ,   and  doesn’t  really  like  being  told  what  to  do  .  she  has  always  done  her  own  thing  ,  not  afraid  of  being  herself  .   she  is  stubborn  and  set  in  her  ways  .  once  she  makes  up  her  mind  ,  there  is  no  changing  it  .

belle  would  give  someone  the  shirt  off  her  back  if  she  saw  someone  in  need  .  she’s  always  willing  to  lend  a  helping  hand  ,  even  if  its  someone  she  doesn’t  know  them  .  she  doesn’t  like  to  ask  for  help  herself  ,  so  she  tends  to  put  others  before  herself  .  for  the  most  part  ,  she  is  a  very  friendly  ,  and  good  hearted  person  .  she  likes  to  make  the  best  out  of  everything  ,  and  tries  to  keep  a  positive  mindset  .  she  is  definitely  the  mom  friend  ,  and  the  type  of  person  to  bake  someone  sweets  to  welcome  them  to  town  .

WANTED  CONNECTIONS  :

bestfriends  :

neighbors  :

friends  who  grew  apart  :

enemies  :

exes  :

WHAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE !

! tw: fire, family death !

MY WONDERLAND’S SHATTERED

! tw: fire, family death ! 

disclaimer: this specific retelling of alice is based off a series of video game (tw: fire, abuse, violence, horror) especially the second entry of the series. i’m willing to help walk you through her portrayal that might differ from the classics we all know !! 

ABOUT

TW: death, prostitution

marion was born into a life of relative prestige and privilege, primarily on account of her familial political ties and law-serving in the form of cops or lawyers. the greenwoods, meant to lead by example and protect their public image by any means, did their level best to live up to reputation in every way except for where it counted: when the doors were closed. addiction and corruption ran rampant through her family line, the usual understanding of power in wealth turning even the best of her brethren crooked in some form or another.

and so it should come as little surprise that marion’s life itself, despite appearances, was far from perfect.  

her mother was a prostitute, primarily serving men of great religion or connection, and thus her mother in name only, as her father refused to take on the shame of marrying a woman he considered beneath him. less so upon discovering her .. condition, the news of her pregnancy in their steady time together ( at his request, as surely no man was allowed to touch what was his ) hardly bringing the joy she wished. his father, a former chief of police, would surely never let him hear the end of it should he even consider otherwise, and instead encouraged a union between his son and a family friend — a woman with the proper connections, a decent standing. and this woman, this eleanor, would present herself accordingly — marion herself long under the impression that eleanor was of blood relation until she uncovered otherwise and chose to keep this secret, and others she may have discovered, well into her years. even at their sudden passing — a situation claimed as poor circumstance, a matter of wrong place, wrong time to cover up any possible scandal — when she would come into the guardianship of her uncle john and fall into his darker world of manipulation and treachery. she kept their lies to herself. she maintained their pristine image. because it was expected. and marion would do little else beyond what was expected — even these days. at least on the surface. to shame her father otherwise, her family publicly, was a death sentence and frankly, rather impractical. there were better ways to maneuver, she’d learn, better ways to break the trend of corruption and betrayal her family had encouraged.

she had come to the decision, rather early in her years, in fact, to fight them from the inside. them, and all the others like them that had disenfranchised those that counted on them and abused the power bestowed upon them. because they were wrong. when marion heard the stories of those of lesser means than she, who only wished for better for themselves and those around, she listened. she learned. she’d bide her time, work her way through, and pursue what mattered.

the journey to that goal? of lesser importance.  

ABILITY

ANIMAL SOUL — possesses the soul of an animal within her human body, permitting her animal-like capabilities, however, this has a limited scope. she can only mimic one creature at a time and her actual size only allows for so much. she also cannot physically transform into these creatures and the longer she chooses to impersonate them, the more setbacks she incurs. this includes things like prolonged sensitivity to ultrasonic waves or easily triggered rage, becoming more animal than human.

SPECIFIC SOULS

WOLF — powerful bite, enhanced endurance, enhanced senses (smell, hearing and sight), enhanced strength, enhanced tracking, tracking evasion, temperature regulation, predator instinct

FELINE — claw retraction, enhanced agility, enhanced balance, climbing, enhanced flexibility, enhanced leap, enhanced senses, enhanced speed, darkness adaptation, night vision, enhanced stealth

AVIAN — aerial adaptation, aerial combat mastery, atmospheric adaptation, wing manifestation, environmental adaptation, enhanced agility

BAT — echolocation, wallcrawling, enhanced hearing, enhanced smell, hibernation, sonic scream, darkness adaptation

SNAKE — camouflage, constriction, crushing, scale manifestation, elasticity, enhanced regeneration, enhanced smell, poison generation, prehensile tongue

TURTLE — dermal armor, enhanced endurance, enhanced durability, defense mode, prey instincts

SHARK — aquatic adaptation, aquatic breathing, powerful bite, enhanced endurance, feral mind, speed swimming

MONKEY — enhanced agility, enhanced balance, climbing, enhanced combat,  enhanced endurance, enhanced strength, prehensile tail, adoptive muscle memory

HARE — burrowing, enhanced agility, enhanced hearing, enhanced leap, enhanced speed, enhanced stealth, luck

HEADCANONS

her parents passed when she was younger in age. she’s been in the custody of her uncle since and their relationship is a little messy, frankly. there have been no confirmations regarding what’s occurred or why regarding her parents, just that it was spun as a sad set of events on account of the family buying silence. considering where and how they were found, however, marion has her own opinions on the matter of her father and his wife’s passing

her uncle’s connections, in part, secured her current position with the mayor and council, allowing her access to those she otherwise wouldn’t be able to pursue

marion is a philanthropist and activist, volunteering her time to those in need, utilizing her wealth to support causes that matter, and raising her voice to speak out for those that cannot, albeit in subtler fashions. unless her uncle believes the publicity might be of some use

marion is also a huge workaholic

very lois lane meets sawyer of cats don't dance, if that gives you an idea of personality

despite her appearance as an upstanding individual, marion has often broken laws in the services of others and has a terrible trend for pursuing those most would consider questionable, at best. romantically or otherwise

marion is a talented archer and fencer and a decent kickboxer. her father wanted a son, and upon discovering she was not this, decided it was still worthwhile to instill in her proper methods of protection. no child of his would be weak in any sense

WANTED

the rich and well-off, the connected, the political

though i'll likely be placing a wc separately, a guy of gisborne would be lovely

the criminally inclined? or just those questionable or unconventional sorts frankly. specifically in exes or even odd associates

those she’s secretly supported in some fashion

those that know of or are connected to her uncle or robin, for that matter